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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: The drunken truth behind The Cult’s “She Sells Sanctuary”

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Cult, Drums, Love, Nigel Preston, She Sells Sanctuary

When The Cult were in the studio recording their Love album back in the middle 80s, they had a drummer

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: The birth of the modern drumkit

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Contraptions, Drum kit, Drum Set, Drums, Ludwig

The modern drum set comes with an interesting history. Its roots go back to the 1890s to a guy named

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Documentary Music History 

Into drums? Then you’ll want to see this new documentary.

October 15, 2022October 14, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Documentary, Drummers, Drums, Justin Kreutzmann, Taylor Hawkins

As a drummer myself, I’m admittedly biased toward anything that gives our type a little respect. That’s what I’m interested

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Funny/Weird 

Fred Armisen shows out people of different ages play the drums

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Drums, Fred Armisen, Jimmy Fallon

Drum impressions? Yep. It’s something that Fred Armisen–a talented musician as well as an actor and comedian–would live to perform

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Music News 

A “Drums for Parkinson’s” fundraiser. Here’s how you can help.

August 21, 2022August 19, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Drums, Fundraise, Parkinson's

On Sunday August 28th, Kevin Farmer (Mountain Head, Grale, The Compound) will be putting his drumming stamina to the test

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Cool! 

Behold the fastest drummer in the world. He’s 11.

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments drumming, Drums, Fastest Drummer, Guinness Book of World Records

Drummers love to play fast. But what are the limits of the human body? At the moment, those limits are

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WTF? 

I…I don’t even know where to start with the Fart Drummer

March 25, 2022March 25, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 66Samus, Drums, Farts, YouTube

YouTuber 66Samus loves programming his electronic drumkit with various interesting sounds. For reasons that remain unexplained, his latest project involves

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Cool! 

Bart Simpson’s drumming corrected

March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Bart Simpson, Drums

If you’re a drummer, I’ll bet you’re annoyed when you see someone playing drums on TV or wherever when the

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Funny/Weird 

This is how Maynard James Keenan passes time during Danny Carey’s drum solos

February 26, 2022February 27, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Danny Carey, Drums, Jenga, Maynard James Keenan, Tool

There are two types of people: Those who enjoy drum solos and those who do not. Even though Tool is

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: The drummer’s foot pedal

January 31, 2022January 30, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Drumkits, Drums, Foot Pedal, Ludwig

About 175 years ago, people played drums with their hands, often with sticks. Playing with the feet wasn’t really part

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Music News 

Dave Grohl rips through a performance “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

November 6, 2021November 7, 2021 Alan Cross 3 Comments Drums, Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit

At a stop on his book tour promoting his New York Times bestseller, The Storyteller, Dave Grohl decided to do

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